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Because the situation here is an adverbial in the situation, we need the relative adverb where to guide the attributive clause. You can't use that here, but that can also be used as a relative adverb in some cases, such as the current word is place.

It's not clear here. There is no paragraph in the original VOA news, which should be added by the author himself later. The original text is as follows: [How does Germany cope with the situation that one of its largest trading partners decided to withdraw from the single market? Will it give priority to economic ties? But if so, there is a risk of undermining political unity and ideas. Therefore, the EU will strive to find unity in balancing the two. " ]

Since xxx is a fixed usage, that is to say, xxx (when you consider something) is taken into account as an adverbial.

It doesn't want ... this is an independent sentence, preceded by an em dash (long dash), which is equivalent to a colon, expressing the content of made it clear mentioned above.